Volume 6
Private Law 25–CXLVII
for the relief of James Selby.
Approved March 3, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of James Selby.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to James Selby, of the county of Philadelphia,
Certain duties to be refunded.
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of discriminating duties paid by him upon the schooner Sea Flower, between the time of his having purchased said vessel in the island of Cuba, and her having obtained a new register, not exceeding the sum of eight hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-two cents: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the
Proviso.
schooner Sea Flower was an American vessel, owned by an American citizen, when she was sold to James Selby, and that he, at the time he purchased the said vessel at the port of Havana, was also an American citizen, and that the said disability was incurred without wilful negligence or intention of fraud.
Approved, .